Showing posts with label fantasy literature of the past. Show all posts
Showing posts with label fantasy literature of the past. Show all posts
14 March 2020

The Magic Wand of Tudor Jenks

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I’ve been enjoying the Magic Wand book set by Tudor Jenks, published in 1905. This collection of modern fairy tales first came to my att...
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27 December 2019

The Oxford and Cambridge Schools of British Fantasy

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From Slate’s interview with Maria Sachiko Cecire, professor at Bard and author of Re-Enchanted: The Rise of Children’s Fantasy Literature...
29 October 2014

“Wonderlands” Conference and Call for Papers

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The University of Chichester’s Sussex Centre for Folklore, Fairy Tales and Fantasy is hosting a symposium on “Wonderlands: Reading/ Writi...
25 November 2013

“This gentle, kindly naturalist”

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From the New York Times Book Review ’s “By the Book” interview with Richard Dawkins : Did you identify with any fictional characters as ...
24 September 2013

Looking in on St. Nicholas

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If I were in Manhattan Friday afternoon, instead of getting ready for MICE , I’d try to attend this lecture at the New York Public Library...
01 May 2013

Editors Seeking Studies of Early African-American Children’s Lit

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Anna Mae Duane and Kate Capshaw Smith are seeking papers on a little-studied subject: early African-American children’s literature. Their ...
18 April 2012

A Taxonomy of Fantasy

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This weekend I’ll be at the Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators’ annual New England conference , this year in Springfield ( ...
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01 December 2011

Rediscovering The Lost Farm

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The Lost Farm by Jane Louise Curry is a really strange book. Especially by today’s standards, but also by the prevailing standards when it...
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07 November 2011

Trying to Claim Fantasy Literature for Christianity

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Reviewing two fantasy novels in the Jewish Review of Books back in 2010, Michael Weingrad asked “Why There Is No Jewish Narnia.” However, ...
22 October 2011

Ruth Berman’s Quest for Bradamant

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I’m pleased to post this interview with Ruth Berman, author of Bradamant’s Quest . This is a new novel about an old character, originally cr...
19 October 2011

Ormondroyd Lost and Found

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On Saturday morning, I finished reading Edward Ormondroyd ’s Time at the Top , which features as its narrator a Bay Area–author named Ormond...
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20 March 2011

Dick Gray and Richard Grayson

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Marc Tyler Nobleman, author of Boys of Steel: The Creators of Superman and an upcoming biography of Bill Finger , co-creator of Batman and...
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01 December 2010

Finding a Lost Illustrator of Andersen

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At the American Antiquarian Society’s Past Is Present blog , Laura Wasowicz describes how she identified the artist who produced this lithog...
13 November 2010

Correction: When Edward Met Edith

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Months back, I wrote an analysis of how Edward Eager ’s 1954 fantasy Half Magic addressed history—in its setting in the past, in its depic...
19 October 2010

Homer Price: “a universal and delightful brat”?!

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Eric Gugler began a short essay in the November 1943 Horn Book like this: When I thumb through this decidedly provocative bunch of illustr...
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28 January 2010

A Heavy Contract for Baum and Denslow

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David Loiterstein of Readex kindly called my attention to this item from the Helena Independent , dated 25 June 1900. It appears to be base...
11 January 2010

Half Magic and History

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On Friday , in an ongoing discussion of how the fantastic elements of The Storm in the Barn affect its status as historical fiction, I comp...
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24 November 2009

Three Degrees of Maginel Wright Enright

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I knew before reading it on Jacket Knack that illustrator Maginel Wright Enright was the sister of architect Frank Lloyd Wright. But I didn...
23 October 2009

Mary Sues of the 19th Century

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Months back, I noted this passage from “Too Good to Be True: 100 Years of Mary Sue” , by Pat Pflieger. For those who have had the pleasure n...
20 August 2009

“Two Kinds of Fantastic Fiction”?

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In a foreword for the second collection of Neil Gaiman ’s Sandman comics, Clive Barker wrote: May we open this celebration of the work in...